Project Start

So here we go !
I am about to embark on a new project, a new world in some ways. This blog will capture the success, the failures and every  pit stop along the way of taking a project from beginning to end.  The  goal of the project is to make a open source, free , personal project tracking system. Code name projMate. The goal of the project is not to have the best project management software out there, but to show everyone , including myself the process , time, commitment , challenges it takes to complete a personal project in the development world. Secondary to this , is  for me going from a average enterprise developer to  a full stack/ cloud/ mobile architect and for me to be able to start my consulting business with the skills , and the conference needed. So here are some top level goals for the project

• Create a  API that can be called from multiple platforms 
• create a  No SQL based data model 
• create a web front end in angular and angular material for the web site 
• Create mobile front end applications for both IOS and Android 
• users should be able to download the code deploy it  to their local server / docker/ or whatever and have it running 
• We should be able to host a central one where users can just use the platform 
• We should have documentation, blog posts and examples as well as sort of a log to track the journey 

Ok so lets talk about first steps 

The firs thing we need is a repository I have chosen to go with GitHub and the repo for the api  can be found here  https://github.com/smccann316/projmate-api

its empty now but I will be adding documentation  as we go 

I would like to take the next 2 weeks and dive into creating the API , with out database and using the service and repository patterns. I would also like to use unit testing and finally be able to connect to the API with postman . at this point I would consider the API to be in a state where we can start to create the front end components to  connect to it. So for this first phase lets focus on 

1. Adding a project 
2. adding a task to the project 
3. Completing a task 
4. completing a project 

I will update this main thread in a week 

Steve